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Billy West

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
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Country People Performances Voice
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Hardest Real Voice
The only thing I have to say to people – try being the hero of your own world one day.
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Day Hero One Own People Thinking World
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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High Intellectual Like People
Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
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Changing Character Different People Public
Everybody. Somebody would just stick their head in the door and say, “He sounds too Jewish.” Or, “He’s too tough, he’s off-putting. You gotta seduce kids, not scare them out the door.”
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Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Craft Happy Long
I did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it.
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Cartoon Long People Popular
Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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Kids Perception Scare
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
All actors used to sound different. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. They were like men’s voices, but they weren’t Everyman, it was them.
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Actor Country Different Everyman People Sounded Used
But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you’re going to do.
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Character Fall Lines
Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
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Attention Cartoon Change Everyone Image Sound
I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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Doing Me Said Voice

You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

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